Witnessing Christ

Contextual and Interconfessional Perspectives on Christology

Michael Biehl, Traugott Hopp, Claudia Jahnel, Michael Kisskalt, Hanna Stahl, Klaus Vellguth, Michael Biehl, Traugott Hopp, Claudia Jahnel, Michael Kisskalt, Hanna Stahl, Klaus Vellguth

• Publisher: Kohlhammer Verlag
• Year: 2020
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9783170381735
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Religious Ecumenism & Interfaith

How do Christological Perspectives differ and which specific ways of witnessing Christ exist depending on cultural, geographical and confessional context in which they developed? Theologians from Africa, Asia, the Americas, the Middle East, Oceania and Europe discuss these questions focussing on the missiological implications of various contextual Christologies. They aim to answer the question if contextual and confessional provenience coins the epistemological preconditions in a way that creates, shapes and secures peculiar identities.

Table of contents

• Cover sheet
• Front page
• Imprint
• Contens
• Preface
• “Towards an Ecumenical Missiology”
• Africa
• Promoting an Ecumenical Missiology
• Is Christ a King
• North America
• Ecumenical Christology for Mission
• Estranging the Stranger?
• Witnessing the Contemporaneity of Christ in the Contemporary World
• Middle East
• Jesus Christ – “Light of All Nations”
• Three approaches to Christology in European mainstream Protestantism and their implications for Missiology
• Christ at the Center
• Asia
• Asian Portrayal of Jesus: the Avatar
• The Theopoetics of the Cross
• Latin Amerika
• Witnessing the worker Christ in Abya Yala
• Oceania
• Student Reflection – Does “my” context allow me to really understand an ecumenical “other”?
• The many faces of Jesus Christ
• Vulnerable, political, transnational
• Contextual Christology in Dialogue – Potential and Limitations
• Laudate omnes gentes, laudate Dominum
• If the Universal Church presented itself as a Community of Learning, Solidarity and Prayer
• Contributors